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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “I hope.”
    Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

  • #2
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    “He raised his eyebrows. "You could kill me".

    "I couldn't," she said, "for you would know I meant to kill you, and you'd escape me. You'd stay far away from me, always."

    "Ah, but I wouldn't."
    "You would," she said, "if I wished to kill you."
    "I wouldn't.”
    Kristin Cashore, Graceling
    tags: katsa

  • #6
    Casey McQuiston
    “Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.”
    Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

  • #7
    Elise Kova
    “They were sending her to war, so she would go and become something they had every right to fear.”
    Elise Kova, Air Awakens

  • #8
    Victoria Schwab
    “Three words, large enough to tip the world. I remember you.”
    V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

  • #9
    Holly Black
    “If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #10
    Holly Black
    “Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It's disgusting, and I can't stop.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #11
    Holly Black
    “Have I told you how hideous you look tonight?” Cardan asks, leaning back in the elaborately carved chair, the warmth of his words turning the question into something like a compliment.
    “No” I say, glad to be annoyed back into the present. “Tell me.”
    "I can't.”
    Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

  • #12
    Holly Black
    “Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #13
    Holly Black
    “Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine.

    “What?” I can barely think.

    “That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”

    “I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

    He kisses me harder.

    “I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
    Holly Black, The Wicked King

  • #14
    Holly Black
    “It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #15
    Holly Black
    “Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips." His eyes are black with desire. "By you, I am forever undone.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #16
    Holly Black
    “And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
    It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
    Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

  • #17
    Rick Riordan
    “Why can't you place a blessing like that on us?" I asked.

    "It only works on wild animals."

    "So it would only affect Percy," Annabeth reasoned.

    "Hey!" I protested.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #18
    Rick Riordan
    “The real world is where the monsters are.”
    Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

  • #19
    Neal Shusterman
    “My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #20
    Neal Shusterman
    “The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #21
    Neal Shusterman
    “Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.”
    Neal Shusterman, Scythe

  • #22
    “The pain of my awareness is unbearable. Because my eyes do not close. Ever. And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself.”
    Neil Shusterman

  • #23
    Neal Shusterman
    “To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake.
    And I do not make mistakes.”
    Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

  • #24
    Neal Shusterman
    “We never know what choices will lead to defining moments in our lives. A glance to the left instead of right could define who we meet and who passes us by. Our life path can be determined by a single phone call we make, or neglect to make.”
    Neal Shusterman, The Toll

  • #25
    Bonnie Burstow
    “Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
    Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

  • #26
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons



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